Rich Toscano wrote: Anyone

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[quote Rich Toscano]
Anyone know of a chart that could confirm/deny my suspicion?
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How about this link..

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/UMCSENT/

You can extract the data.. and try to time series match it with S&P 500.. The correlation might be a first or second derivative on the index vs consumer sentiment.